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If you own a wonderful business...the best thing to do is keep it. All you're going to do is trade your wonderful business for a whole bunch of cash, which isn't as good as the business, and you got the problem of investing in other businesses, and you probably paid a tax in between. So my advice to anybody who owns a wonderful business is keep it.

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We really can say no in 10 seconds or so to 90%+ of all the things that come along simply because we have these filters.

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Probability is the very guide of life.

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If you knew what was going to happen in the economy, you still wouldn't necessarily know what was going to happen in the stock market.

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Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you're not in too big a hurry

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I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I could about the subject.

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The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.

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Does the business have a consistent operating history?

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Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.

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Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect.

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The greatest Enemies of the Equity investor are Expenses and Emotions.

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Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of earnings that is not reportable by us under standard accounting principles than to purchase $1 of earnings that is reportable.

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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.

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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

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The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago.

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Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.

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The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones, and the age of oil won’t end because we run out of oil.

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Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive.

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If you can eliminate the government as a 39.6% partner, then you will be much better off.

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All jobs are created in direct proportion to the amount of capital employed.

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